0008994: Cannot login when down for maintenance - MantisBT - Signup temporarily disabled due to spam

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008994	mantisbt	administration	public	2008-03-22 11:53	2012-01-17 02:05

Reporter	leblancma	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.1.1

Summary	0008994: Cannot login when down for maintenance
Description	After creating a page 'mantis_offline.php' to take my bugtracker offline, I cannot login as described in core.php (line 44). Page 'mantis_offline.php' is properly displayed as expected. If I add ?mbadmin=1 to the login_page.php url, I do see the login page, however, I cannot login to my bugtracker. I get bounced back to the mantis_offline.php page.
Steps To Reproduce	Create the 'mantis_offline.php' page. Check that it is properly displayd. Add ?mbadmin=1 to the url Try to login BUG Mantis displays page 'mantis_offline.php'.
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vboctor 2008-07-14 04:10 manager ~0018490	We should allow the administrator to login while mantis is offline.

dregad 2010-09-16 10:10 developer ~0026737	I just tested this, and it partially works for me on 1.2.1. What I mean is: it is indeed not possible to login, or to use parts of the system where a displayed page is redirected to another. However, if your session cookie is still valid (e.g. you log in before putting Mantis in maintenance mode), then you are able to append ?mbadmin=1 to whatever page you want to view and access it without problems (e.g. http://yoursite.com/mantis/my_view_page.php?mbadmin=1 or http://yoursite.com/mantis/view.php?id=1234&mbadmin=1), but keep in mind that you need to manually edit the URL each time you navigate to a different page. Wouldn't it be better, if feasible, to store the "mbadmin" flag in the session cookie, so that the navigation becomes more seamless for the administrator during the maintenance ?